charmlessman - 2011-07-18 Something about watching that has solidified something in my mind that I've always understood but never been able to verbalize until now.

Aspies, weeaboos and their related ilk are so bizarre because they are incapable of understanding that the thing that makes them feel so good doesn't do the same for everyone else.

It's something that I and probably most of you have figured out long ago. But they never did and it means they'll spend the rest of their lives talking endlessly to the sides of people's heads about how their favorite character made them SO MAD when she betrayed her best friend in episode 34!

badideasinaction - 2011-07-18 It happens everywhere, it's just that it becomes much more concentrated at anime cons.

Parents, pet owners, sports fans, camera/computer/car/whatever enthusiasts, foodies, music geeks, etc. all have people who project their love of whatever onto their audience and bore them to tears.

It shows up in an especially concentrated form at anime cons because the person doing it can much easier generalize "this person likes anime" to liking their anime, kinda like how one parent will assume a different parent will want to hear detailed descriptions of every poop their baby has taken.

But yeah, as someone who has actually been a judge for these masquerades before if wish I could be paid for every time I had to explain "nobody understands your in-joke" to people bounding masquerade ideas off me. And I wish I could be paid for every time I've sat through a skit like this -.-